Land restoration target revised to 26 mln ha: Experts call for strategy overhaul

Due caution must be exercised in setting standards and policies for restoration of degraded lands, say experts

Reform, restitution, justice: UN report suggests host of measures to protect indigenous rights

Denying indigenous peoples their rights self-defeating: UN Report

Strong nexus between land use and drought: UNCCD report

It also called for the management of land and drought to be fundamentally linked

Robbing Hood?

Tribal travails

Continue in Kerala over land

Divide and rule

Land rights and wrongs

World lost 87 per cent wetlands in 300 years

Rapid urban expansion one of the major reasons behind land degradation, says a global report

Tapping unused government land

There is a need to assess land acquisition and allotment for infrastructure projects, to eliminate the possibility of creating surplus and …

Six killed in Jharkhand after police fire at farmers protesting land acquisition  

This is the third time the police have opened fire at the protesting farmers in the area

Cabinet approves ordinance to ease land acquisition rules

Provisions relating to fair compensation in the land Act of 2013 have not been amended in the ordinance

Uncommon swing for commons

States rush in with new policies and programmes to protect village land

Land Titling Bill: silent on rights of tribals and the poor

Land Titling Bill silent on settling rights of tribals and the poor

Fringe benefits taxed

Post-independence policies have taken away all securities of the small farmer

Up for grabs

Goa suffers the infiltration of its pristine landscapes by groups with vested commercial interests

Rogue illusionists

A village crops up in the heart of a forest as three government employees cook the books

Nobody's children

A plantation economy, land grabbing and migrations from neighbouring states have forced Gudalur's tribals into destitution

Land rights for Brazil tribe

Honey, I shrunk the land

Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics

Roughly 15 per cent of the world’s land surface is under official state protection

Poor land use can cost the world $23 trillion by 2050

If the world spends even a fraction of the predicted loss, it can reverse land degradation, which affects the poorest the most

Beijing is sinking due to excessive groundwater extraction

A new study has found a direct correlation between depression in the surface and pumping out of groundwater

Eye on irrigated pie

Farmers' organisations raise an alarm over Odisha government's recent guidelines that allow industries to acquire irrigated land

A land of their own

Society thinks women do not want to own land. That’s where it is wrong

Andhra Pradesh farmers get a raw deal in exchange of land

The Land Pooling Scheme of the Andhra Pradesh government to acquire land for the new state capital, Amravati, is turning out to be a nightmare …